Re: How to refer to the first target?

[Paul Smith]

On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 22:13 -0600, Peng Yu wrote:
> $< refers to the first prerequisite. How to refer to the first target?

Not sure what you mean: generally there is only one target.

If you mean in a pattern rule with multiple target patterns, there is no
way.  You can construct it with $*, but since, unlike prerequisites, all
targets have to be defined right there in the rule it's not as important
to be able to generically refer to the "first" target.

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